2018年1月5日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Trump ICE Chief Wants To Prosecute Politicians Who Won't Lock Up More Immigrants

Posted: 03 Jan 2018 06:36 PM PST

Trump ICE Chief Wants To Prosecute Politicians Who Won't Lock Up More ImmigrantsWASHINGTON ― The Trump administration is considering prosecuting state and local officials for not fully cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency's acting director said Tuesday in an escalation of his threats against so-called "sanctuary cities" and the undocumented immigrants who live in them.


Sessions crackdown on pot could make life harder for Republicans in November

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 09:35 AM PST

Sessions crackdown on pot could make life harder for Republicans in NovemberA crackdown is unlikely to be popular with the solid majority — 64 percent — of Americans who support pot legalization. 


‘Bomb cyclone’ paralyzes Massachusetts

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 08:10 AM PST

'Bomb cyclone' paralyzes MassachusettsNBC News' Blake McCoy reports from Scituate, Massachusetts, where high winds and waves battered homes along the shore. Weather experts say the storm surge is nearing record highs in Boston, where rescues happened on the historic streets.


Turns Out Roy Moore’s Jewish Lawyer Is Actually A Christian Now

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 08:54 PM PST

Turns Out Roy Moore's Jewish Lawyer Is Actually A Christian NowThe Jewish lawyer Roy Moore's wife invoked when responding to anti-Semitism claims on the eve of Alabama's special election is now an evangelical Christian.


Walmart reveals the top-selling product in every US state

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 10:23 AM PST

Walmart reveals the top-selling product in every US stateDespite the retail industry taking a major beating this year with multiple big-name stores across the country shuttering locations, there was one retailer that held on strong: Walmart.


San Francisco earthquake latest: 4.4 magnitude hits Bay Area two miles away from Berkeley

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 06:46 AM PST

San Francisco earthquake latest: 4.4 magnitude hits Bay Area two miles away from BerkeleySan Francisco Bay Area residents have been shaken out of their slumber by a magnitude 4.4 earthquake that was felt over a wide area. A spokesman for the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services said there were no reports of harm to the region. A Berkeley Fire Department dispatcher, who declined to give his name, said more than a dozen people had called, mostly complaining about windows shaking.


What you need to know before buying your jackpot lottery tickets

Posted: 03 Jan 2018 09:00 PM PST

What you need to know before buying your jackpot lottery ticketsThe Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots are nearly $1 billion combined.


Check Out All These Doggos Enjoying The Bomb Cyclone

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 08:47 AM PST

Check Out All These Doggos Enjoying The Bomb CycloneWith a so-called bomb cyclone bearing down on the eastern part of the U.S. on Thursday, many people woke up to the realization that there is a lot of snow where there wasn't any the night before.


Illinois man told to stop having ‘slumber parties’ in his house for homeless people

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 11:31 AM PST

Illinois man told to stop having 'slumber parties' in his house for homeless peopleA Chicago man is being warned by city officials to stop offering "slumber parties" at his home to homeless people or else his house will be condemned. Greg Schiller told NBC 5 he began opening his basement up to the homeless last month during brutally cold weather. "While we appreciate those who volunteer to provide additional resources in the community, Mr. Schiller's house does not comply with codes and regulations that guard against potential dangers such as carbon monoxide poisoning, inadequate light and ventilation, and insufficient exits in the event of a fire," Molly Center, a city spokesperson, said.


The tax bill that makes Trump POSTUS (president of some of the United States)

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 02:00 AM PST

The tax bill that makes Trump POSTUS (president of some of the United States)The tax bill's message from Republican lawmakers to Democratic-voting states seems to be: "You're not our people, so go get bent."


Yara Shahidi Compares Iran Protests With Black Lives Matter: We're All Interconnected

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 05:07 AM PST

Yara Shahidi Compares Iran Protests With Black Lives Matter: We're All InterconnectedComparing the ongoing anti-government protests in Iran to demonstrations in the U.S. like Black Lives Matter, actress and activist Yara Shahidi is urging Americans to consider just how interconnected the situation in Iran is to the U.S. experience.


Airline Pilot Reportedly Slaps Co-pilot, Abandons Cockpit Mid-flight

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 09:04 AM PST

Airline Pilot Reportedly Slaps Co-pilot, Abandons Cockpit Mid-flightTwo pilots for an Indian airline have been suspended after starting a fight and abandoning the cockpit in the middle of a flight. The Jet Airways flight from London to Mumbai was left unmanned on New Year's Day when the pilots erupted in an argument


Stay away from romaine lettuce, Consumer Reports advises

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 08:15 AM PST

Stay away from romaine lettuce, Consumer Reports advisesPeople should stay away from romaine lettuce until U.S. and Canadian health officials get to the bottom of an outbreak of E. coli infections, Consumer Reports says.


Shaking, no damage in San Francisco Bay Area quake

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 06:32 AM PST

Shaking, no damage in San Francisco Bay Area quakeSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Bay Area residents were shaken out of their slumber by a magnitude 4.4 earthquake that was felt over a wide area but caused no major damage early Thursday.


Dogs Left Outside In The Cold Have Died And Been Found ‘Frozen Solid’

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 12:42 PM PST

Dogs Left Outside In The Cold Have Died And Been Found 'Frozen Solid'The brutal cold that's believed to be responsible for at least 11 human deaths this week is also taking a toll on animals — particularly pets left outside in the frigid weather.


We Found The Neo-Nazi Twitter Account Tied To A Virginia Double Homicide

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 02:45 AM PST

We Found The Neo-Nazi Twitter Account Tied To A Virginia Double HomicideWASHINGTON —The warning signs were there, flaring up from Nicholas Giampa's pseudonymous Twitter feed for over a year.


Zimbabwe court dismisses case of U.S. woman charged with insulting Mugabe

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 03:24 AM PST

Zimbabwe court dismisses case of U.S. woman charged with insulting MugabeA U.S. citizen charged with attempting to overthrow the Zimbabwean government after police accused her of insulting then-president Robert Mugabe had her case dismissed by a Harare court on Thursday. Martha O'Donovan works for Magamba TV, which describes itself as Zimbabwe's leading producer of political satire. O'Donovan was first charged with insulting and undermining the president, and subsequently with subversion, a charge that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.


Republican Sen. Gardner torches Sessions over pot reversal

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 08:29 AM PST

Republican Sen. Gardner torches Sessions over pot reversalThe Colorado senator says Attorney General Jeff Sessions had personally promised him prior to his confirmation that he wouldn't take steps to tighten enforcement of federal pot laws.


NFL Heiress Allegedly Attacked Man with Her Purse and Used Anti-Semitic Slurs on New Year's Eve

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 07:46 AM PST

NFL Heiress Allegedly Attacked Man with Her Purse and Used Anti-Semitic Slurs on New Year's EveThe socialite daughter of former Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke was arrested Wednesday following an altercation on New Year's Eve, where she allegedly left a man bloodied after hitting him with her purse


Two Russian servicemen killed in Syria mortar attack

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 12:24 AM PST

Two Russian servicemen killed in Syria mortar attackRussia's defence ministry on Thursday said two servicemen were killed in a mortar attack by Islamist militants in Syria on New Year's Eve, but denied media reports seven military planes had been destroyed. "As darkness fell, the Hmeimim air base was subjected to sudden mortar shelling from a mobile group of militants. As a result of the shelling, two servicemen were killed," the defence ministry said in a statement to Russian news agencies.


Safety probe warns California's dam crisis a 'wake-up call'

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 04:19 PM PST

Safety probe warns California's dam crisis a 'wake-up call'SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — "Long-term and systemic failures" by California dam managers and regulators to recognize inherent construction and design flaws at the tallest U.S. dam caused last year's near-disaster there, an independent panel of dam safety experts said Friday, calling it a wake-up call for dam operators around the country.


Neo-Nazi behind Daily Stormer website Andrew ‘Weev’ Auernheimer 'is of Jewish descent, his mother says'

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 01:12 AM PST

Neo-Nazi behind Daily Stormer website Andrew 'Weev' Auernheimer 'is of Jewish descent, his mother says'The mother of a neo-Nazi who co-runs the white supremacist website Daily Stormer has said he has Jewish relatives on "both sides of his family". Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, who has previously said Jewish children "deserve to die", comes from a "large, mixed race family" and is of Jewish descent and Native American heritage, his mother Alyse told Newsweek. Auernheimer, 32, from Arkansas, who runs the technical side of the website alongside editor Andrew Anglin, has been estranged from his mother for more than ten years, she told the magazine.


Pro-government rallies in Iran as U.S. imposes fresh sanctions

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 07:28 AM PST

Pro-government rallies in Iran as U.S. imposes fresh sanctionsPro-regime rallies were held around Tehran Friday with authorities seeking to put the recent violent unrest to bed, as Washington slapped fresh sanctions on Iran.


The Latest: Immigrant acquitted of killing faces US case

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 01:32 PM PST

The Latest: Immigrant acquitted of killing faces US caseSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing of an immigrant acquitted of San Francisco pier shooting (all times local):


White House calls it 'laughable' to question Trump's mental fitness

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 01:21 PM PST

White House calls it 'laughable' to question Trump's mental fitnessWhite House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday that it's "disgraceful and laughable" to question President Trump's mental fitness.


5 Ways To Stop Blowing So Much Of Your Budget On Food

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 02:45 AM PST

5 Ways To Stop Blowing So Much Of Your Budget On FoodSo, how did that "50/30/20 rule of budgeting" work out for you in 2017?


Pakistan shrugs off impending U.S. aid cuts, wary of harsher measures

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 05:21 AM PST

Pakistan shrugs off impending U.S. aid cuts, wary of harsher measuresBy Drazen Jorgic ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan is shrugging off proposed U.S. aid cuts but frets that Washington could take more drastic measures to deter what it sees as the South Asian nation's support for Taliban militants causing chaos in neighboring Afghanistan. Washington plans to imminently slash "security assistance" to Pakistan, U.S. congressional aides told Reuters on Wednesday, although the type, scale and length of the cuts was unclear. A day earlier, the White House said it would suspend about $255 million in already delayed military assistance.


Want to make good on your weight loss resolutions? Here are the best diets for 2018, ranked

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 12:37 PM PST

Want to make good on your weight loss resolutions? Here are the best diets for 2018, rankedDetermined to make 2018 the year you lose those last stubborn pounds? A new report that analyzed dozens of the most popular diets and weight-loss programs has identified the Mediterranean diet, DASH and Weight Watchers your best chances for success. 


How To Beat The '7-Year Itch' In Your Relationship

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 07:56 PM PST

How To Beat The '7-Year Itch' In Your RelationshipUps and downs are par for the course in any long-term relationship.


How to Avoid Serious Injury When Slipping on Ice

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 11:16 AM PST

How to Avoid Serious Injury When Slipping on IceFalling on a slippery surface can cause serious injury. Here's how to fall the right way.


Democrats Aren't Sure Whether To Make Jeff Sessions' Pot Crackdown An Election Issue

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 07:16 PM PST

Democrats Aren't Sure Whether To Make Jeff Sessions' Pot Crackdown An Election IssueWASHINGTON ― Leading Democrats blasted Attorney General Jeff Sessions' Tuesday announcement that he would open the door to a federal crackdown on states that have decriminalized forms of marijuana use.


The Latest: Lawyers upset hearing canceled in 4 deaths case

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 02:02 PM PST

The Latest: Lawyers upset hearing canceled in 4 deaths caseTROY, N.Y. (AP) — The Latest on two men accused of killing two women and two children in a basement apartment (all times local):


22 Healthier Chips That Will Satisfy All Your Salty Cravings

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 10:35 AM PST

22 Healthier Chips That Will Satisfy All Your Salty Cravings


Three TVs, a phone and a cheeseburger: tell-all book reveals Donald's bedtime

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 11:33 PM PST

Three TVs, a phone and a cheeseburger: tell-all book reveals Donald's bedtimeMichael Wolff's new book paints the most detailed portrait yet of life inside the Trump White House. Reported first by the Guardian, then in more detail by New York magazine and other outlets, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House has illuminated what the book suggests is a toxic stew of personal feuding, disorganization and alarming behavior behind the gates of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The president, excerpts suggest, has struggled to feel at home during his first year in power, expressing paranoia about his surroundings and pummeling residence staff with odd requests and rules.


The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 10:13 AM PST

The Funniest Tweets From Parents This WeekKids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest ways.


Los Angeles' large Iranian community cheers anti-regime protests

Posted: 03 Jan 2018 07:28 PM PST

Los Angeles' large Iranian community cheers anti-regime protestsBy Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Many in Los Angeles' Iranian expatriate community, the largest in the United States, are heartened by anti-government street protests back home but want to make sure international focus stays on what they see as a struggle for democracy. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution and are concentrated in a neighborhood on the city's west side nicknamed "Tehrangeles" dotted with Persian shops and restaurants. The community is welcoming support for the protesters from political leaders of both parties in the United States.


Four Venezuelan generals placed on US sanctions blacklist

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 02:23 PM PST

Four Venezuelan generals placed on US sanctions blacklistThe US Treasury placed four serving or retired Venezuelan generals on its sanctions blacklist Friday, raising pressure on the embattled government of President Nicolas Maduro. The Treasury Department alleged that the four were either involved in repressing protesters or tied up in major corruption schemes. Washington has already targeted Maduro himself for sanctions, and is a long-standing opponent of what it sees as his increasingly authoritarian regime.


Eagle Snatches Little White Dog From the Ground Before Taking It on Wild Ride

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 12:11 PM PST

Eagle Snatches Little White Dog From the Ground Before Taking It on Wild Ride'We thought she was dead,' the dog's owner said.


Sen. Cory Gardner Rips Jeff Sessions' Weed Reversal, Threatens To Hold Up DOJ Nominees

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 12:05 PM PST

Sen. Cory Gardner Rips Jeff Sessions' Weed Reversal, Threatens To Hold Up DOJ NomineesThree days after California legalized the use of recreational marijuana, Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday indicated he intends to reverse an Obama-era federal policy that discouraged federal prosecution of the drug in states where it was legal.


The 101 Most Delish Ways To Eat Peanut Butter

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 03:25 PM PST

The 101 Most Delish Ways To Eat Peanut Butter...other than with a spoon out of the jar, of course.


Plane Makes Emergency Landing Because of Man 'Spreading Feces Everywhere’

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 03:33 PM PST

Plane Makes Emergency Landing Because of Man 'Spreading Feces Everywhere'Sometimes flying can be a dirty business — just ask the passengers on United Airlines flight 895


Trump Pushes Voter ID Laws, Lambastes Democrats After Disbanding Voter Fraud Panel

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 03:27 AM PST

Trump Pushes Voter ID Laws, Lambastes Democrats After Disbanding Voter Fraud PanelPresident Donald Trump on Thursday reiterated his frustration with certain states for not handing over information to his commission on voter fraud, and blamed the "rigged system" on Democrats.


The Navy's Greatest Mistake: They Stopped Building the 'F-22' of Submarines

Posted: 04 Jan 2018 12:11 PM PST

The Navy's Greatest Mistake: They Stopped Building the 'F-22' of SubmarinesThe Seawolf-class submarines were envisioned as the best submarines ever built. The submarines were designed to be true hunters, and as a result have eight torpedo tubes, double the number of earlier submarines. It has stores for up a combination of up to fifty Mark 48 heavyweight torpedoes, Sub-Harpoon antiship missiles, and Tomahawk missiles.


Michael Wolff's explosive book on Trump: the key revelations

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 09:24 AM PST

Michael Wolff's explosive book on Trump: the key revelationsWashington DC, the media, a panicked White House and an incredulous American public were rocked on Wednesday morning when the Guardian published the first details of Michael Wolff's new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. In a passage with heavy resonance now, the future national security adviser Michael Flynn is quoted as telling friends that taking $45,000 from the Russians for a speech "would only be a problem if we won". Melania Trump was among those who thought her husband would not win.


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